Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was the scientist alone who could make sense of the discoveries , and late eighteenth-century naturalists had already begun to puzzle over the bones of gigantic elephant-like creatures found both in America and in Europe . |
| 2 | My feeling is that it would n't have when there 's a been a change perhaps there could be no from the |
| 3 | As Creggan turned north away from the Park all he could see for miles ahead was the stretching city . |
| 4 | Well we , we work shifts so he could probably do it when we 're on earlies and |
| 5 | I was n't aware of any huge gaps in the programme and that being the case perhaps we could stretch to seven lap races next year . |
| 6 | So we had to go past this little shed which is right up right up this stupid grass earthy bank right over the side so we could see quickly how to get in . |
| 7 | The existing museums had all been converted into celebrations of the life and achievements of Nicolae Ceauşescu so what could be more natural than that the Conducator 's body should rest in the museum as the culminating exhibit of Romanian national history . |
| 8 | See the more winners you ride the less weight less you could claim . |
| 9 | they were n't , they were n't gentlemen so they could n't be er they could n't be officers . |
| 10 | Erm I 'd have one aga , I mean , I wa I wanted mine for Alan 's wedding so I could have a nice tan for , with my suit . |
| 11 | Alexander had continued to stare , completely sober now , at the apparition only he could see . |
| 12 | I thought well he 's got a couple of kids so he could do with a little girl . |
| 13 | He was wrapped in so much of the duvet all she could see was the top of his head . |
| 14 | there 's no slow start on the reverse I got it while I was working in Leicestershire so I could n't really take it back it 'll cost me more in petrol |
| 15 | Here in these slum streets existed an army of the unskilled , all trying to wrest a living anyway they could . |
| 16 | If you are the right weight already you could very probably still be healthier if you reduced your intake of saturated fats . |
| 17 | If we got our tea early we could be at the park tonight . |
| 18 | Twelve months later they could cover only 18 per cent . |
| 19 | No that the Directors ' Wives were at all troubles by that sine now they could get those extra carpets for ceilings and special dog-teeth-mountable tin openers so their little doggy babies could open their own bloody tins of meat . |
| 20 | Dear Doctor I own a Tokai TST-50 Strat copy and up until a few months ago I could n't fault its sound or setup . |
| 21 | Mark David well it could of been Mark Andrew and then it 'd been Mat at least your name , your initials do n't spell any thing rude |
| 22 | If , however , the staffing improvement can be imaginatively exploited to create links between the special school provision , other special provision and primary or secondary schools then it could create the first stages of a unified , coherent service whose institutional boundaries are eroded . |
| 23 | Oh no , her mother 's opinion had been , if Jessie did n't want to serve in the shops then she could help with the housework and learn to cook , and so save Maggie Rice 's half week 's wage of six and threepence , for Maggie was on what her mother called half-days , which started at eight and finished at one . |
| 24 | If we could calculate accurately the consequential change in the electron 's momentum then we could allow for the effects of the collision and our knowledge would still be capable of being made exact . |
| 25 | As more components of the total error model become available as a result of research then they could be adopted . |
| 26 | He acted out of moral considerations yet they could not be regarded as principles in the Kantian sense because they were principles or considerations involved in what Winch calls ‘ ‘ the perspective' ’ of the action' . |
| 27 | This authority is taking a somewhat different view to that public inquiry than the erm the highways authority er after shire hill er erm so I I think if we were to take a decision tonight it could affect our position at the public inquiry adversely er and I would not want us to get into that situation so I think to some extent er councillor timing on this motions is wrong and we should n't be be er discussing it now . |
| 28 | France and Spain , okay , if you only got one of those countries right we could n't give you the point , it has to be both , question eighteen , in which book would you find the character Long John Silver ? |
| 29 | And I did n't have any Treas keys so I could n't tell them to use the help service . |
| 30 | Okay , right , the old water mill used to turn the stones in the wil mill really you could turn a generator . |